Resources
Healing takes place when we feel safe, supported, and seen - community is the medicine that reminds us we’re not meant to carry it all alone.
SIDS Calgary Society, Peer Support
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 84084, RPO Market Mall, Calgary, AB T3A 5C4
Phone: (403) 265-SIDS (7437)
Contact: peersupport@sidscalgary.ca or www.sidscalgary.ca
Services: Peer supporters available to support those who have experienced the sudden and unexpected loss of a baby or child
Avery’s Legacy
Avery’s Legacy creates thoughtfully curated bereavement boxes for grieving families—offering comfort when words fall short. Each box is filled with meaningful, supportive items that show care and compassion. With every purchase, you not only gift kindness to someone you love, but also help Avery’s Legacy donate boxes to families who have recently experienced the unimaginable loss of a child.
Carry You With Me
Carry You With Me offers heartfelt support, inspiration, and connection for those navigating life after loss. Founded by grief educator, speaker, and author Alanna Knobben, providing meaningful tools through the storybook, 1:1 grief mentorship, online programs, workshops, and speaking engagements - helping individuals transform grief, honour their loved ones, and grow with love and resilience.
Hazel’s Heroes
Hazel’s Heroes offers heartfelt weekend retreats for bereaved mothers, creating a safe, supportive space to grieve, heal, and connect. Nestled in the quiet beauty of the Rocky Mountains, these retreats honor the enduring love between mother and child, offering comfort, community, and hope on the journey after loss.
Alberta Children’s Hospital
Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Service-Grief Support Program. From the time of a child’s diagnosis, throughout their illness and after their death, grief and bereavement support is offered for families by compassionate social workers at the House.
Through one-on-one counselling and supportive group sessions, the team helps bereaved parents learn how to create an ongoing relationship with their child, honour their memory and manage feelings associated with grief and trauma.
Child Life Specialists also offer a Sibling Grief Support program that focusses on coping and understanding the grief journey through a developmental lens.
Hospice Calgary - Children’s Grief Centre
Helping people find hope and well-being through the provision of compassionate support and exceptional care during advanced illness, end-of-life, and grief.
Offering the Children's Grief Centre, where families with children aged 19 and under are supported as they adjust to the changes when someone close to them has died. Using individual, family counselling and group support, we work with children, teens, and their families to help them gain the tools they need to face grief.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Centre
Our mission is to support and connect individuals who have experienced the trauma around miscarriage, stillbirth, Termination For Medical Reasons (TFMR), abortion, neonatal loss, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), or infertility.
We acknowledge that the journey through loss towards healing is as complex as it is individual. As such, we offer many no-cost pathways to healing including a help line, support groups, peer mentorship, and professional 1:1 sessions.
Alberta Health Services – Pregnancy & Infant Loss Program
Phone: (403)-944-8835
Services: Provides individual, couples, family & group counselling following the loss of a pregnancy (miscarriage, Ectopic, medical interruption), stillbirth & neonatal death.
Caring Beyond
Phone: (403) 944- 2209
Contact: www.caringbeyond.ca
Services: Caring Beyond is a support group for parents who have lost a baby due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, neonatal death or termination due to poor prenatal diagnosis.
Family to Family Connections
Phone: (403) 955-2456
Contact: http://fcrc.albertahealthservices.ca/family_connections.php or email: F2FConnections@albertahealthservices.ca
Services: An opportunity to connect with a volunteer parent who has also experienced the loss of a child for the sharing of information, support and resources.
Suicide Services, Canadian Mental Health Association
Phone: (403) 297-1744
Contact: www.cmha.calgary.ab.ca
Services: Education and bereavement support for families who have experienced a loss by suicide.